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\n\tDonald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher who helped oversee one of America\u2019s most powerful media empires and whose family name remains synonymous with Cond\u00e9 Nast, has died at 96.<\/p>\n
\n\tNewhouse died Tuesday at his home in Lambertville, New Jersey, from lymphoma, according to the\u00a0New York Times.<\/em>\u00a0He and his older brother, Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., better known as Si, inherited a vast media conglomerate from their father and spent decades shaping American media landscape.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Si Newhouse became closely associated with Cond\u00e9 Nast and titles including\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em>,\u00a0Vogue<\/em>,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, and\u00a0Architectural Digest<\/em>, Donald largely focused on the company\u2019s newspaper business via Advance Publications. He spent years running\u00a0The Star-Ledger<\/em>\u00a0in Newark and helped expand Advance Publications\u2019 newspaper holdings across the country through regional newspapers including Cleveland\u2019s The Plain Dealer<\/em>, The Times-Picayune<\/em> of New Orleans, and Portland\u2019s The Oregonian<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe brothers were known for maintaining a close relationship despite overseeing different corners of the empire, and frequently\u00a0traded business notes\u00a0over dinners at Sette Mezzo on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tDonald Newhouse\u2019s death comes just days after Christie\u2019s marquee evening sales featured a major group of works from Si Newhouse\u2019s collection. The 16-lot sale brought in\u00a0$630.8 million with fees\u00a0and pushed the cumulative total from Newhouse collection sales past $1 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe sale included major works by Jackson Pollock,\u00a0Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i,\u00a0Joan Mir\u00f3, Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, and Andy Warhol. Pollock\u2019s\u00a0Number 7A, 1948<\/em>\u00a0sold for\u00a0$181.2 million with fees\u00a0after a 10-minute bidding battle, setting a new auction record for the artist.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThough Donald Newhouse maintained a far lower public profile than his brother, he remained a towering figure in American publishing. Anna Wintour described him as \u201can outward-blazing light\u201d who filled rooms with \u201cenergy and humor\u201d in a statement published by NJ.com after his death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/donald-newhouse-dies-si-newhouse-advance-publications-1234787587\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/P111LKYJ.jpg?w=1024″] Donald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher who helped oversee one of America\u2019s most powerful media empires and whose family name remains synonymous with Cond\u00e9 Nast, has died at 96. Newhouse died Tuesday at his home in Lambertville, New Jersey, from lymphoma, according to the\u00a0New York Times.\u00a0He and his older brother, Samuel Irving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1958775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}